Word: pettigrew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenneth Clark, Thomas F. Pettigrew, and M. Robert Coles '50, said American race relations were "pathetically irrational...
Harvard Social Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew summed it up by saying: "A lot of people voted their prejudices, but more people voted something else." White, more assertive as a victor than as a campaigner, declared: "No man or woman is going to tear this city apart with hate or bigotry or false promises." Mrs. Hicks, more gracious in defeat than in combat, appeared with White on election night to congratulate him and wish him well...
...graduate students, including me, in one way or another, had their lives touched by him," Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, said of Allport last night...
...flunk it. "It is possible that some of the behavioral differences between human groups may be genetically determined," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Ernst Goldschmidt. "These may include differences in intelligence, but such differences may equally be due to cultural determinants. The question simply remains open." Harvard Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew points out that "while the intelligence test means of the two races are still divergent, the range of performance-from the most retarded idiot to the most brilliant genius-is much the same in the two groups. Some Negro children achieve IQs into the gifted range (130 or over...
...Pettigrew expects Mrs. Hicks's additional votes to come from the city's Italian districts, where her neighborhood school idea is popular. In the preliminary election most of these votes went to City Councilor Christopher A. Iannella, He also expects her to pick up votes that went to the other heavy losers in the preliminary--candidates whose political complexion resembles hers. "But even giving her most of these votes leaves her with about 45 per cent. She could pick up one or two more percentage points from a larger turnout," he said...